# Hanbit Investment

> Hanbit Investment is a VC fund backing Mobile, Education and E-Commerce. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Hanbit Investment is a Korean venture capital firm that provides its users with consumer services.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $1k–$6.1M |
| Series B | $2k–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 2 | 20% |
| Education | 2 | 20% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 20% |
| Publishing | 2 | 20% |
| Media and Entertainment | 2 | 20% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 7 | 70% |
| Series B | 2 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Goi | Goi provides funeral service support solutions that enables organizations to manage employee welfare and memorial arrangements efficiently. The company delivers an integrated suite of services, including real-time funeral coordination, cost control, customized memorial products, nationwide delivery, administrative assistance, and transparentpricing. This approach allows corporations and institutions to optimize employee benefit programs while ensuring families receive accessible, reliable, and dignified end-of-life services, reducing both financial burden and operational complexity. | $6.1M | Series A | Dec 01, 2025 |  |
| Law&Good | Law&Good is a law and consulting firm. | $5.7M | Series A | Jan 26, 2023 |  |
| Oncocross | Oncocross is a Biopharmaceutical Company. | $13.8M | Series B | Sep 03, 2020 |  |
| PeopleNStory | People & Story creates web novel content for webtoon production and for domestic and international content distribution. The company specializes in content creation and distribution. The company acquires and produces Webtoon and Webnovel IPs, expands infrastructure, and invests in a variety of content using adaptation rights. | $1K | Series A | Mar 28, 2017 |  |
| Jeju Beer | Jeju Beer is a beer brewery company. | $2.9M | Series A | Jan 17, 2017 |  |
| Now Waiting | Now Waiting provides store management service for small businesses. | $1K | Series A | Apr 18, 2016 |  |
| Dining Code | Diningcode (다이닝코드) is an online search portal that analyzes big data to help users find restaurants in their vicinity. | $1.5M |  | Dec 24, 2015 |  |
| Book Pal | Book Pal Korea (북팔) is a Korean startup offering a free e-book application that gives users access to thousands of novels and story books on their smart phone.Book Pal gives access to over 20,000 e-books through their virtual library. It is a convenient platform for modern readers, enabling them to read their favorite novels in the comfort oftheir mobile screen. All e-books are formatted and presented in resolutions that are easy on the eyes. Book Pal also provides a book publication platform where new writers can submit their writing to be read and reviewed by other users. | $2K | Series B | Oct 17, 2014 |  |
| Iamcompany | ‘iamcompany’ is a student startup based on KAIST Midam committee and other educational charity services within KAIST. The company’s vision is to find students’potential through internet based technologies. To fulfill this vision, the company received 2 billion won investment from various investors.Service ‘iamschool’ is a mobile app thatsends various educational institutions’ news and other contents to students’ caregivers. Just like ‘Twitter’, educational institutions send contents and news publicly. Caregivers search and follow institutions.(Download: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.imcompany.school2)‘iamclass’ is a web service that sends institutions’ information about students or institution itself directly to students’ caregivers. This app also advertises educational institutions to their target market.(Download: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.imcompany.school2) | $1.5M | Series A | Jun 27, 2014 |  |
| Hellomarket | HelloMarket allows anyone (mostly in Korea atm) to buy, sell, and exchange their goods and services to anyone else.Beyond making everything much easier than what it was like on a desktop, we are winning the highly developed and sophisticated Korean market by:1) Focusing on maintaining a clean marketplace not dominated by professionalsellers, spam, and fraudsters 2) Going beyond face-to-face transactions by enabling in-app shipping and secure escrow payments 3) Being all-around awesome | $2.2M | Series A | May 22, 2014 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Seoul Investment Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seoul-investment-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Company K Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/company-k) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Nau IB Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nau-ib-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Wooshin Venture Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wooshin-venture-investment-corp) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Aju IB Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aju-ib-investment) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Albatross Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/albatross-investment-1a41) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Hanbit Investment invest in?

Hanbit Investment invests primarily in Mobile, Education and E-Commerce startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Korea. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Hanbit Investment's check size?

Hanbit Investment typically joins rounds of $1k–$6.1M at Series A and $2k–$12M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Hanbit Investment participates in.

### When did Hanbit Investment last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Hanbit Investment closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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